Pato O'Ward holds up his Champions trophy
Pato O'Ward, Rinus Veekay and Kyffin Simpson during the champagne part of the awards
Update: Fast, yes, just not fast enough. IndyTO 2025 ended with Pato O'Ward 1st, Rinus Veekay 2nd and Kyffin Simpson 3rd on the podium spraying champagne at each other. There were also a few bumps along the way for a few drivers. It was a great end to the IndyCar race weekend.
1st Car #5 Pato O'Ward
2nd Car #18 Rinus VeeKay
3rd Car #8 Kyffin Simpson
You can find my posts of the 2025 Honda Indy race weekend as follows.
The number 14 car of Santino Ferrucci took a big hit in the warmup, hopefully he has time to get his machine back in fighting shape. Update: the AJ Foyt team announced that they have to pull the 14 car out of the race as it was too badly damaged.
NTT IndyCar says, "Last year in this event, the driver of Andretti Global w/ Curb-Agajanian’s No. 26 Gainbridge Honda led a 1-2 team finish with Kyle Kirkwood second. Today, Kirkwood was also second in the No. 27 Silver Gold Bull Honda. Herta’s best lap time was 1 minute, .0578 seconds. Kirkwood’s best was 1:00.1578. The two drivers are about a half-second faster than the next-best driver. Herta has been the top qualifier two of the past three years at this track. "These Andretti guys are freaking fast," Arrow McLaren's Pato O'Ward said after the session."
After Saturday, July 19, the top ten qualifiers including the Firestone Fast Six are as follows.
Firestone Fast Six
After Saturday, July 19, the top ten qualifiers including the Firestone Fast Six are as follows.
Firestone Fast Six
1 #26 Herta, Colton
8:32 a.m. - 8:57 a.m. NTT INDYCAR SERIES Warmup
9:25 a.m. - 10:05 a.m. USF2000 Race 2
10:20 a.m. - 11:05 a.m. USF Pro 2000 Race 2
2 #10 Palou, Alex will use primary tires
3 #66 Armstrong, Marcus
4 #12 Power, Will
5 #15 Rahal, Graham
6 #27 Kirkwood, Kyle
The rest of the top ten qualifiers
7 #45 Foster, Louis (R) will use primary tires
8 #28 Ericsson, Marcus
9 #18 Veekay, Rinus
10 #5 O'Ward, Pato
It rained in the early morning but the weather looks good for the rest of the day. The top 16 teams will mostly be running on their alternate tires and two cars (#4 and #30) will have to start on primary tires. Car #9 (Scott Dixon) was penalized six grid positions after using too many engines, he starts 17th.
Gates open at 8am and Sunday's schedule starts with an early IndyCar warmup, a few support series races then the headlining NTT IndyCar Series Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto race beginning at 12:22pm, then a few more support series races, followed by the track tear down beginning at 4:15pm.
Sunday, July 20 schedule
Gates open at 8am and Sunday's schedule starts with an early IndyCar warmup, a few support series races then the headlining NTT IndyCar Series Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto race beginning at 12:22pm, then a few more support series races, followed by the track tear down beginning at 4:15pm.
Sunday, July 20 schedule
8:32 a.m. - 8:57 a.m. NTT INDYCAR SERIES Warmup
9:25 a.m. - 10:05 a.m. USF2000 Race 2
10:20 a.m. - 11:05 a.m. USF Pro 2000 Race 2
IndyCar Race
11:25 a.m. - Cars to Grid
11:30 a.m. - NTT INDYCAR SERIES Driver Introductions
11:30 a.m. - NTT INDYCAR SERIES Driver Introductions
11:52 a.m. - Grid Formation
11:59 a.m. - Anthem
12:06 p.m. - Drivers to your cars
12:15 p.m. - Intro to Drivers Start Your Engines
12:22 p.m. Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto (90 Laps)
12:22 p.m. Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto (90 Laps)
2:15 p.m. - Estimated start of post race Victory Circle celebrations
Back to the Support Series races
2:50 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Radical Cup Canada Race 2
3:45 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. Miata Canada Cup Race 2
2:50 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Radical Cup Canada Race 2
3:45 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. Miata Canada Cup Race 2
The entire weekend was well attended but the busiest day was IndyCar race day
Walking the grid as part of the opening ceremonies
Crowds gathered around Victory Circle waiting for the winners to get their trophies
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